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" The Antediluvian Patriarchs on a Tablet from Nippur," by 

 George A. Barton, Ph.D., which was discussed by Professor 

 Learned and Mrs. Stevenson. 



Stated Meeting March 5, 1915. 



William W. Keen, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



Dr. David Jayne Hill, elected to membership in 1910, subscribed 

 the Laws and was admitted into the Society. 

 Letters were received : 

 From the President appointing Prof. W. LeConte Stevens to 

 represent the Society at the inauguration of Edward Kidder 

 Graham, as President of the University of North Carolina. 

 From Prof. W. LeConte Stevens, accepting the appointment. 

 The decease of the following members was announced : 

 Arthur vonAuwers, at Berlin on January 24, 191 5. 

 James Geikie, LL.D., D.C.L., at Edinburgh, on March 2, 1915; 

 aet. 75. 

 The following papers were read : 

 " The Swedes, Governor Printz, and the Beginning of Pennsyl- 

 vania," by Thomas Willing Balch. 

 "A Missing Chapter in International History," by Hon. David 

 Jayne Hill, which was discussed by Mr. Carson, Prof. 

 Learned, and Mr. Rosengarten. 



Stated Meeting April p, 1915. 

 William W. Keen, M.D., LL.D., President, in the Chair. 



An invitation was received from the Trustees and Faculty of 



Allegheny College, to be represented at the celebration of the One 



Hundredth Anniversary of the founding of the College, to be held 



at Meadville, Pa., in the week beginning the twentieth of June, 191 5. 



The decease of the following members was announced : 



Charles Francis Adams, LL.D., at Washington on March 20, 



191 5 ; ast. 80. 

 Frederick Winslow Taylor, M.E., at Philadelphia on March 

 21, 1915; jet. 59. 



